Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is urging key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases in new television ads airing in Iowa and her home state of Arizona.

The ads specifically target Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), two lawmakers who have made statements supporting background checks in the past. The ads include black and white images after high-profile mass shootings at a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.

This is her despicable husband’s doing..Mark Kelly is a disgusting POS..Giffords didn’t come up with this on her own, her brain is Swiss cheese..but all liberals brains are Swiss cheese so maybe she did come up with this on her own

Of course liberals have no respect for human dignity, these are the same people who favor late term abortion..no one has ever asked Giffords if she was SO terrified for her life before the shooting, how come at her little event she didn’t have ONE security guard protecting her..perhaps if there had been someone armed at her event the shooting would have been prevented..instead she had those people as sitting ducks..I feel bad that Giffords was shot but my sympathy went out the window when she and her hubby went after our 2nd Amendment rights, oh and blaming Sarah Palin for what happened

Yes, and it worked.
Sad to see her used like this.
This is what the left does.
What does our side do to counter it?
Both the people who did these shootings were nuts.
That is the real problem.
Where is the outspoken opposition?

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posted on 03/06/2013 12:41:07 PM PST
by right way right
(What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))

Giffords and her freeloading, gold digging husband are a couple real pains in the @$$. They are milking this thing for every buck they can get. Typical commie RATS. They are a disgrace to America. Trampling the Bill of Rights just to make a buck.

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posted on 03/06/2013 12:44:12 PM PST
by FlingWingFlyer
(Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)

This is her despicable husbands doing..Mark Kelly is a disgusting POS.

Well, Jim Brady is getting old, and Sarah has milked that gig about long enough, so Gabby is the heir apparent poster child. The despicable husband is just cashing in. Of course the rules will only apply to the peons, not the elite and well connected...

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posted on 03/06/2013 12:50:19 PM PST
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)

Mark Kelly from the moment Gabby was shot blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting, that is when I saw what a despicable piece of filth he is..couldn’t even wait 5 seconds to start blaming Sarah Palin, Republicans, anyone else but the shooter who was obsessed with his wife..he is the one that runs the show in that household, he tells Gabby what to say and she repeats it like a puppet and the media goes awwwwwwwwwwwww when she talks and repeats her talking points

I remember before the shooting Giffords was on MSNBC going on and on about how the Palin map was putting her in danger..yeah such danger that she had an event with ZERO security..if I were any of the families of those victims killed I would have sued Giffords for putting them in danger..yeah she felt SO threatened, and yet had no security at her event, wide open, for anyone to come..yet she had the nerve to blame Sarah Palin for what happened..disgusting, the both of them, Giffords and Kelly, two peas in a pod

That is the opinion of my brother and I as well. Kelly is beyond reprehensible in my opinion. If he wants to run around himself because of what happened to his wife, fine. (I could even somewhat understand his motivation if he chose to do so). But pimping her around everywhere is disgusting.

Can “gabby” even talk? I believe she has a lot of brain damage. Her loser husband is using her as a tool. Shouldn’t he be home with her taking care of her rehab and so forth? I believe her husband has suffered more brain damage in the form of LIBeralism than she did by being blasted in the head.

Dude that shot her would have passed a background check. He had a blank, thus clean, record. He never had a mental health evaluation until after he shot Gabby, even though in hindsight he should have. The problem wasn’t dysfunctional background checks but dysfunctional mental health services. Fix that, taking care not to go too far and impinge on the rights of the mentally healthy. I don’t claim to have the recipe, but it needs find a good balance between to maximizing the rights of majority, who are (ignoring last November’s data point) probably mentally well; protect that majority against those who are dangerously mentally ill; and, ideally, provide help to those mentally ill who are unknowingly risks to themselves.

Dude that shot her would have passed a background check. He had a blank, thus clean, record. He never had a mental health evaluation until after he shot Gabby, even though in hindsight he should have. The problem wasn’t dysfunctional background checks but dysfunctional mental health services. Fix that, taking care not to go too far and impinge on the rights of the mentally healthy. I don’t claim to have the recipe, but it needs find a good balance between to maximizing the rights of majority, who are (ignoring last November’s data point) probably mentally well; protect that majority against those who are dangerously mentally ill; and, ideally, provide help to those mentally ill who are unknowingly risks to themselves.

“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily  given the political realities  going to be very modest.

Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal  total control of handguns in the United States  is going to take time.

My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition  except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors  totally illegal.”

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

The thing is, she was an absolute nobody before she got shot. Nobody outside her district had ever heard of her, and I’d venture to say that half the people IN her district had never heard of her before the incident. And deservedly so.

Now, her every utterance is supposed to be taken as the Word of God?

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posted on 03/06/2013 3:56:36 PM PST
by ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)

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